ABC quietly unveiled a new reality series on Tuesday night. Like the network’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series, Find My Family had audience members reaching for the tissues by the box. But, more importantly for the show’s future, how did it do in the ratings?
Hosted by Tim Green and Lisa Joyner, Find My Family helps people reconnect with family members after being separated for many years. The emotional reunions take place on-camera and in front of a place known as the “Family Tree.”
Following the performance finale of Dancing with the Stars, the premiere of Family attracted 12.76 million viewers and a 2.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Those numbers look okay on their own but its significant that the series lost about 40% of its lead-in audience. ABC can’t be happy about that.
The real test will be next Monday’s broadcast though. Family won’t have the powerful Dancing lead-in and will expand to one hour.
What do you think? Is Find My Family worth watching or should ABC cut this series short? Cancel or keep it?
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I prefer to cry and watch the amazing work the investigators do better than watch some sci or violent show.
I really enkoyed that show. MY older daughter and I had a date night. That made even more special
PLEASE PUT ME BACK ON THIS FOR E.MAIL PLEASE. MARGO
Keep it!!! My whole family loved the show.
Keep the show. It is nice to see that not all mothers and fathers forget about their children put up for adoption!!
I feel find my family should be brought back. I really enjoyed the show. My whole family watches the show.
Please bring Find My Family back!!! I LOVE that show!!!! PLEASE!!!!
DID ANYONE SEE THE OPRAH TODAY/??????MARGO
TO ALL CONCERNED,TODAY ON OPRAH THEY HAD ON THERE OF A REIUON.GO TO http://www.oprah.com for 2-18-10. you will find out more.HER SHOW IS ON ABC!!!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!MAYBE THERE IS STILL HOPE TO BRING OUR SHOW BACK,WISH WE COULD GET THROUGH TO HER,ANYONE OUT THERE THAT COULD H E L P. MAY GOD BLESS US ALL, MARGO
Please bring back finding my family I enjoyed it very much
QKeep it! I looked forward to the series
and kept checking to see it had returned.
what is wrong with the states that do not have open records. margo i feel so sad for all of concern.,birt moms and adoptees.
Please return Find My Family back to prime time television! As an adult adoptee from Missouri and co-founder of a support group, we need all the help we can get trying to find family members and this show is a wakeup call for our legislators. Missouri is currently hearing testimony on bills to allow adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates. Adult adoptees need the help this show provides as we run into brick walls every step of the way in trying to find our heritage, our birthright.
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are, and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning; no matter what our attainments in life, there is the most disquieting loneliness.”
-Alex Haley
for annie danner, i am a birth mother, i found my daughter 10 years ago. do you know where you were born at? if you could find out as much as you can . Contact vital records in the state where you where born, the state capital. that is how i found my daughter. my daughter died 2 yrs ago. i was blessed to have met,her parents were great they always were up front with her and her brother. i can tell you more not good at comp. annie, my girls name at birth was ann marie. take care, margo
Please return Find My Family back to prime time television! As an adult adoptee from Missouri and co-founder of a support group, we need all the help we can get trying to find family members and this show is a wakeup call for our legislators. Missouri is currently hearing testimony on bills to allow adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates. Adult adoptees need the help this show provides as we run into brick walls every step of the way in trying to find our heritage, our birthright.
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are, and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning; no matter what our attainments in life, there is the most disquieting loneliness.”
-Alex Haley
Bring this show back as it gives adoptees hope that we CAN find our biological parents. We have been made to feel we’re backstreet trash from closed records and it’s nothing more than legal, mental abuse on the part of states preventing adoptees to know everything about themselves. Find My Family helps families reconnect. A wholesome TV show that the whole family can enjoy together. There’s not many shows nowadays that CAN bring families together in front of the television. Tim Green brings his true feelings out in the open as he was an adoptee also. I bought his book years ago and when this show first aired, I shouted TIM GREEN! I KNEW who he was and KNEW this show was going to be GREAT! IT IS! PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!
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